TC24D on a slope

[jinman]

Hey! That's much too neat for a construction site. Mine never was that clean until all the contractors left. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif Thanks for the explanation. I'd love to see side-by-side construction method differences with a house in Texas and a house in Alaska. It would be an interesting contrast, I am sure. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[yellowdog99502]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( </font><font color="blueclass=small"> The liquid in the tires doesn't seem like a wise choice up here in that we could easily wind up w/ frozen fluid in the tires (potentially for several months) and the removeable weight just sounds better. </font> )</font>

Legion,

Well, I knew it would happen someday, someone from Los Anchorage joined this list! Looks like you are on Upper O'Malley or a bit further south? I lived out near Kincaid Park and in Homer for many years. . . . . Ahhhh home!

Anyway, as for the fluid freezing in the tires, we used windshield washer fluid in Square-banks, actually at Eielson (-45 - 50, burrrr) in our construction equipment and never had any troubles. There is another product based on sugar beets that is supposed to work really well in cold climates also. I think it is called Rimguard, don't expect me to remember what it is even though I have it in my tires!

As for the 100 mph winds, as we said in Adak, 'it's just enough to keep the smoke out of your eyes." Houses in Bear Valley and out by the Matanuska glacier are designed to 130.

Who is selling NH in Anchorage? Best of luck,

Don

 

[Bob_Skurka]

I don't get 100mph winds, but when I built my house (almost 9 years ago) we put the house on top of a 60 foot hill (in Indiana that means that my house is about as high as it can possibly be and still be on the ground!) with a western exposure that is flat and literally streatches for miles. My house also has 3' to 4' wide eaves that overhang the house and the west wall is a full 3 stories tall.

So the winds come off the fields rise up the only hill in this part of the state and smack directly the wall of my house, rise up and then hit that big overhang. The building inspector, the general contractor and the architect were all bend out of shape about the possibility of the roof coming off the house. We ended up reinforcing the whole west side of the stucture with steel straps carriage bolts.

I don't know what it will withstand, but I suspect 100mph might still take the roof off my house. What the heck do you use to keep your house together at 100mph let alone at 130mph!?!

 

[Trouser Bark]

Yessir. Glen Alps Rd, just south of Upper O'Malley. Remember where the Flat Top parking lot's at? Right close to there. I'm about 200 vertical feet down from the ridge and Bear Valley is about 800' below and on the other side of that ridge ...and the wind screams through there like a Banshee. So hard that a couple months ago a concrete pump truck couldn't raise it's boom or the wind would topple the truck on a new home going up.

That house w/ the boom truck is solid poured concrete w/ no block and no stick frame walls in it at all. Owner says it's good for 300mph winds. Interesting structure but it's about as attractive as my dog's butt and I'm sure must've been horrifically expensive to build. Even the roof is concrete. One thing's for sure though; he'll be able to sleep when the wind blows. There is beauty in that.

Another neighbor went over 660' for his well and got a dribble. At $30/ft that's a spendy cup of water he's drawing. I told him he could come over w/ a bucket anytime. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[Trouser Bark]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">(
Who is selling NH in Anchorage?
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Bailey's. I've known 'em as an equipment rent-all place here in town for years but they just started carrying the NH tractors recently. I actually feel pretty fortunate too as the guy that I worked with there to buy the tractor was a great guy to deal with. Very open and straight forward sort of guy. No BS, no hidden anything, and he was really helpful. I'd highly recommend them. His name is Marvin Lee.

...and Bob, we use steel. Lots of steel. Braces, fittings, drag struts, brackets, you name it; if it's steel we like it. Steel helps you sleep better.

 

[Trouser Bark]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Hey! That's much too neat for a construction site. )</font>

You caught me. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif The place is a stye. This'll make you feel better.

 

[SteveInMD]

Two weeks ago I turned my TC33D into a three wheeler on a slope. I was trying to haul a log to the top of the hill. The log was too big to fit in the bucket and I didn't want to cut it up into smaller pieces because it was on the way to the saw mill. In an effort to avoid tearing up my lawn by dragging the log, I lifted it with a chain around the bucket. Part way up the hill the chain slid to one side of the bucket and presto!!! a three wheeler.

Writing about my bone-head move here on TBN is somehow refreshing. I've always known that tractors are dangerous on hills, but nothing drives the point home like an experience like mine. I'm grateful that nothing happen to me or my machine.

I now own a set of forks and a Tach-All adapter for the 7308 loader. The forks are a major safety improvement. I was always trying to carry objects that were too big for the bucket by lifting the bucket way up until it was "level". Now I can carry bulky things (stumps, logs, etc.) nice and low to the ground. I highly recommend forks to anyone working on slopes.

 

[Inspector507]

Legion,
I'm confused (not a hard task /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif). Isn't the left heel pedal the diff lock?
On the TC18, which should be the same as the TC24, the 4WD is an orange lever on the right fender. The 2 yellow levers on the left fender are the PTO levers, one for rear, one for mid.
I could be wrong, I was 2 or 3 times before /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[Trouser Bark]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Legion,
I'm confused (not a hard task /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif). Isn't the left heel pedal the diff lock?
On the TC18, which should be the same as the TC24, the 4WD is an orange lever on the right fender. The 2 yellow levers on the left fender are the PTO levers, one for rear, one for mid.
I could be wrong, I was 2 or 3 times before /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif )</font>

You know, I'm sure you're right. It doesn't make sense that 4wd would be such a temp thing but it does make sense that stuffing the left heel lever down would be a dif lock ...because it makes it mighty tough to turn? /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

I'm heading out there in a few minutes for a little more work, if that's the right word for it. I hope it's not one of the handles w/ the plastic wrap still on 'em. I haven't touched any of those yet! Must've had it engaged already though as I've noticed the fronts spinning independently.

Tonight's lessons?

1) Move more levers.
2) Try to remember what they do.

Oh yeah, I ordered the twin axis tilt meter from Rick. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[jinman]

Yep! That's what it's supposed to look like. See the attachment for just a part of what the bricklayers left for me. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif